Allen Grossman Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
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I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
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There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.
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We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
